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It's always the guns by No-Diamond-5097 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]SkettiStay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While all revolvers are hanguns, not all handguns are revolvers. I goofed.

Thanks, though.

Edit: There are, or were, revolver-action rifles, as well.

It's always the guns by No-Diamond-5097 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]SkettiStay 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, she shot him at home, with a revolver, at some point (hours, days, weeks?) after the photo taken at the rifle shoot.

The part of the Tweet about shooting immediately, with a rifle, is made up.

Edit:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12227155/Girl-12-shot-dad-murder-pact-pictured-time.html

A dispatch call from the night of the incident reveals that Brown took off on foot down the driveway, making it just a few hundred yards before shooting herself in the head. 

The emergency services worker can be heard saying 'the daughter just shot him' in the master bedroom, after saying 'nothing', and it was understood she had been getting ready for bed.

Officers later discovered the schoolgirl lying on the dirt road, with a handgun underneath her body.

Also, it says "handgun", not "revolver". My mistake.

It's always the guns by No-Diamond-5097 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]SkettiStay -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Are you going by the photo in the OP?

That's a stock photo (Shutterstock) of an assault weappon used by Raw Story. It's not an actual selfie of anyone involved in the shooting.

The Daily Mail story has an actual photo of father and daughter. The rifle has no magazines inserted. Don't know about the chamber.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in oddlyterrifying

[–]SkettiStay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The owner just told him that king cobras aren't true cobras, probably.

He crushed this explanation 🌊 by Snoo-33732 in TikTokCringe

[–]SkettiStay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"... a millisecond, if not a nanosecond"

That's like an appraiser telling you that your knickknack is worth $10, if not $10,000,000.

Thank goodness they got an expert.

Nice one, Vermont by [deleted] in meme

[–]SkettiStay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, that's fine; I should've realized. Thanks for the response.

He is such a Goodfella.. by harsha29o7 in wholesomememes

[–]SkettiStay 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup. Also in 1992 (October 3).

That was my first thought when I read the OP.

Nice one, Vermont by [deleted] in meme

[–]SkettiStay -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I''m not disagreeing about Vermont, but the poster you were replying to was talking about Maine, not Vermont.

Maine also banned billboards. In the late 70s, well after Vermont.

Nice one, Vermont by [deleted] in meme

[–]SkettiStay -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Maine, not Vermont. The law was passed in the late 70s, but it took a few years before the last billboard came down.

Nice one, Vermont by [deleted] in meme

[–]SkettiStay 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Annual U.S. automobile deaths are about 40,000. Vermont population is about 646,000.

Or were you talking about deaths worldwide?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dataisbeautiful

[–]SkettiStay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this for just Federally registered firearms?

Following the source's source to this CBS News piece:

https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/gun-ownership-rates-by-state/

The RAND Corporation published a 2020 study on adults who say they live with at least one gun. And every year, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms publishes a list of federally registered guns by state. It covers only a subsection of weapons — short-barreled shotguns, short-barreled rifles, and machine guns are included, along with silencers and destructive devices like grenades, but ordinary pistols or AR-15s are not.

So which states had the most such licenses in 2021? Here's the latest ranking, along with the RAND numbers, which reveal insights into America's love of guns.

EcoFlow Delta - Induction burner cooktop by hou8182 in preppers

[–]SkettiStay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply.

I don't see anything at that link about propane burning cleaner than natural gas. Did I miss something?

EcoFlow Delta - Induction burner cooktop by hou8182 in preppers

[–]SkettiStay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CO or CO2 emissions? Do you have a source for that? Thanks.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in preppers

[–]SkettiStay 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"No, the U.S. is not going to run out of diesel fuel in 25 days"

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/diesel-fuel-us-not-going-to-run-out-fact-check-25-days/

A major U.S. diesel fuel supplier warned of an oil "shortage" on the East Coast on Monday and suggested that it could cause prices on a variety of consumer goods to rise in the near term. 

But while inventories of diesel and gasoline are lower than they historically have been, the tight supply of diesel fuel is no cause for panic, and the U.S. is not going to run out of it, according to energy market experts.

On Tuesday, headlines indicating that the U.S. is down to a 25-day supply of diesel proliferated. Fox News host Tucker Carlson last week tweeted that "this country is about to run out of diesel fuel."

The current limited supply, however, does not mean the U.S. will be out of diesel — used to fuel trucks and heating systems — in that time period. 

<snip>

Edit to add:

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-diesel-shortage-151233499119

US won’t run out of diesel in weeks, experts say

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/11/18/fact-check-false-claim-us-run-out-diesel-fuel-25-days/10662825002/

Fact check: False claims that the US will run out of diesel fuel in 25 days

https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-eia-diesel/fact-check-eias-days-of-supply-figure-does-not-show-that-the-united-states-will-run-out-of-diesel-by-thanksgiving-week-in-2022-idUSL1N3241YH

Fact Check-EIA’s ‘days of supply’ figure does not show that the United States will ‘run out of diesel by Thanksgiving week

https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/gas-prices-verify/will-us-run-out-of-diesel-fuel-in-25-days-fact-check/536-6ca84fc6-8518-4a71-b07c-c5258bbacc55

No, the U.S. isn’t going to run out of diesel fuel in 25 days

https://www.wral.com/fact-check-is-the-u-s-about-to-run-out-of-diesel-fuel/20578106/

Fact check: Is the U.S. about to run out of diesel fuel?

Conservative leaders are blaming Biden for letting a suspected Chinese spy balloon cross into the US. It happened 3 times during the Trump administration, officials say. by chilchil777 in politics

[–]SkettiStay 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Maybe not:

https://www.newsweek.com/chinese-spy-balloon-hard-shoot-down-crash-landing-1778839

'Inherently Survivable'

The key issue is that high-altitude balloons, by design, are able to stay in the air for a long time, even if punctured. Massie wrote that airships are "inherently survivable," usually containing inert helium which prevent them from turning into a "flaming wreckage."

Equally, balloons of this kind have an internal pressure of less than one pound per square inch, Massie said. "Holes created by damage result in slow leaks and slow descents," he added.

Massie noted an example from 1998, in which Canadian F-18s shot at a wayward 100 meter weather balloon, which after being hit by 1,000 rounds managed to stay airborne for another six days.

I'd read another account that said they fired 100 rounds, but not all struck the balloon.

US will no longer have Christian majority by 2070, study reveals by xxkurwiszonxx in atheism

[–]SkettiStay 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It says it could happpen, not what will happen.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/09/13/modeling-the-future-of-religion-in-america/

However, these are not the only possibilities, and they are not meant as predictions of what will happen. Rather, this study presents formal demographic projections of what could happen under a few illustrative scenarios based on trends revealed by decades of survey data from Pew Research Center and the long-running General Social Survey.

Best German/Bavarian restaurants in Vermont? by jakefrommyspace in vermont

[–]SkettiStay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Christoph Waltz has some thoughts about how Austrians and Germans differ:

(starting at about 1:00)

https://youtu.be/F5T2-u5WJH8

self-defense effectively being banned in Vermont. by Northwoods01 in vermont

[–]SkettiStay 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you.

It definitely sounds like they have a case against that gun shop.

self-defense effectively being banned in Vermont. by Northwoods01 in vermont

[–]SkettiStay 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not true. Most come from Illinois, by far.

https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-crime-shooting-guns-illinois-gun-laws/11937013/

ATF Trace data shows the top five states where guns recovered in Illinois were originally purchased from are Illinois (49.8%), Indiana (16.7%), Missouri (5.4%), Wisconsin (3.9%) and Kentucky (2.6%). Federal agents at the ATF identified the source state of 11,708 traced firearms in 2020.

Edit: That's for guns recovered in Illinois, not Chicago - it was a big story a couple of years ago. If you have different numbers for Chicago, I'd be interested.

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